Cyber Crime articles

One of the fastest growing areas of crime is cybercrime, in which criminals attempt to exploit the speed, convenience and anonymity that modern technology offers them. Earlier attacks such as viruses have been replaced by sophisticated attacks which can threaten websites of organisations, or the IT systems within an organisation itself. This could be by attacking the systems so that they shut down or acquiring data from the systems to help with identity theft. Criminals could commit the attacks for political and/or financial reasons.

As a result, the profile and awareness of cyber security has risen, with the government committing £650m to cyber security over a four-year period from 2010 as part of its National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP).

Sometimes, the power of the mainframe is the most cost effective answer. Computing's Peter Gothard puts Computing's readers' questions on the future of the mainframe to IBM's Z13 expert Steven Dickens.